This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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As I am searching for a song to make the debut post for today, my mind goes to check the anniversaries page, and I find that today is the anniversary of passing away of Pt Shivram. This gives me an impetus and I start exploring the films for which Pt Shivram has composed the music. After going thru the list of his films, as given in the Geet Kosh, I find that although his work in Hindi cinema is confined to about 23 films, there still are some of his films that are not yet represented on our blog. So I search thru his pending films, and I come across this obscure film, albeit from a major banner.

The film is ‘Phool Aur Kaliyan’ from 1960, and it is produced by V Shantaram for his own banner – Rajkamal Kala Mandir. From the descriptions that I am able to locate, this is a children’s film. The unique distinction that this film carries is that it is the first children’s film to receive the National Award in the then newly created category of children’s films.

The director of the film is Ram Gabale. The songs of this film are penned by Bharat Vyas, and the music, yes, is by Pt Shivram. The list of actors as per the Geet Kosh, reads like – Radhika, Uma Dutt, Shaamlal, Daljeet, Bhagwan, Kiran, P N Bali, Somdutt, Moti Bai, R Khanna, Shakeela Bano Bhopali, Rani, Premlata, and George.

My plan was to also provide a brief bio sketch of Pt Shivram. As I scouted the net for gathering information, I came across a blog post by Aditya Pant ji, on his blog ‘Parwaaz e Khwaahish’. This blog post is dedicated to Pt Shivram. As I read through this blog, and checked out the reference materials listed, I find that I could not have done anything more or any better a job that this. I would encourage all readers to please also visit this blog (https://urgetofly.blogspot.in/2015/12/remembering-pandit-shivram-krishna.html), and read this very well researched and equally well written biosketch.

The interesting thing is about the singing voices. For this film, Pt Shivram has got three of the four songs in the film, to be sung by the daughters of V Shantaram – Madhura and Charusheela. This particular song is sung by Madhura Shantaram.

The song is a very wonderful and a very poignant one, albeit a very inspirational song. Keeping in with the spirit of the film being a children’s film, this song is a song of encouragement and motivation. It tells about the difficulties that one is bound to face in life. But with patience and faith, one will surely overcome all such difficulties. A superb song for children.

With this post, now the 1960 film ‘Phool Aur Kaliyan’ makes its debut on our blog.

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Sudhirbhai,
Very many thanks for posting this unique song, which has a special link with ME personally.
In our Classical Music Guru-Shishya parampara, we call wife of our Guru as Guru-Maa. We call our Guru’s Guru, as Bade Guruji. So Madhura Jasraj-ji is my Badi Guru-Maa.

Wow, and thanks for this additional information. This is news to me that V Shantaram’s daughter is married to Pandit Jasraj. It must be a great emotional strength to be connected with such a hallowed tradition.

this is world news! how is it that you don’t know. and Durga Jasraj and Sharangdev are Shantaram’s grandkids.
some coincidence i saw the last scene of this movie this morning where the village kids organise a kind of circus show to collect money and help some poor tailor who also encourages them to stage their circus show.
infact this is the second time i have seen the same part of this movie and had made a mental note of seeing it some day 🙂

Ramesh Talwar(famous director of baseraa,doosra aadmi) said he acted in phool aur kaliyaan as a child artiste in his vividh bharthi radio interview “Ujaale unnki yaadon ki” some months ago……

Zee classic always telecast phool aur kaliyaan during unearthy hours like early morning schedules, I always try to watch that movie,(yesterday also I noted down the telecast timings) but could not able to catch the telecast,
Further, I think,the starcast of the movie don`t boast of any saleable names that`s why the said movie gets always stepmotherly treatment
They telecast phool aur kaliyan only because that movie comes from the banner of V.Shantaram`s banner Rajkamal kalamandir………..